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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 13 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 75901 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 71 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 great 8 England 7 man 7 like 6 life 6 good 6 Shakespeare 6 Mr. 5 english 5 Wordsworth 4 work 4 time 4 thing 4 poetry 4 nature 4 french 4 Sir 4 God 4 English 4 Coleridge 3 poet 3 american 3 Sidney 3 Pope 3 Mrs. 3 Milton 3 Homer 3 Aristotle 2 people 2 little 2 fiction 2 book 2 author 2 York 2 Tennyson 2 Southey 2 Ronsard 2 Rome 2 New 2 Miss 2 Lord 2 London 2 Johnson 2 James 2 Italy 2 Horace 2 Hardy 2 Hamlet 2 Greek 2 George Top 50 lemmatized nouns; 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"How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1272 most 54 least 41 well 3 highest 2 worst 2 soon 2 drest 1 smallest 1 loudest 1 lest 1 goethe 1 farthest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15 _ is _ 13 poetry is not 9 poet does not 8 poetry is more 5 _ are _ 5 _ is not 5 book is not 5 man was ever 5 poem is not 5 work is not 4 _ did not 4 _ is more 4 _ was _ 4 critic does not 4 poet is not 4 poetry is merely 4 poets are not 3 _ do _ 3 _ is only 3 _ is really 3 _ was not 3 author has not 3 critic has not 3 man is not 3 men are often 3 mind was not 3 poetry is therefore 3 things are not 3 world are misery 2 _ does not 2 _ give _ 2 _ had _ 2 _ had already 2 _ have _ 2 _ is as 2 _ was also 2 _ was first 2 art is better 2 author has ever 2 authors are partial 2 authors did not 2 authors do not 2 book is as 2 book is entirely 2 books are full 2 books are not 2 character is not 2 characters are illustrious 2 characters do not 2 critic is not Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 poetry is not only 1 _ are not _ 1 _ be no doubt 1 _ did not immediately 1 _ did not perhaps 1 _ had no interest 1 author had no intention 1 author had no lesson 1 author has not powers 1 author is no more 1 author was not too 1 authors make no provision 1 authors were not active 1 book are no small 1 book is not mere 1 book is not so 1 books are not seventeenth 1 character are not occasionally 1 character is not so 1 characters do not generally 1 critic does not commonly 1 critic has no such 1 critic has not merely 1 critic has not yet 1 critic is no longer 1 critic is not superior 1 criticism had not yet 1 criticism is not well 1 criticism is not wholly 1 criticism was not even 1 criticism was not only 1 critics are not really 1 critics have no greater 1 day were not strong 1 fact is no answer 1 fact is not comment 1 facts seem not only 1 form is not enough 1 life is no more 1 literature are not characteristically 1 literature has no burdensome 1 literature have not even 1 literature is not so 1 man are not limited 1 man is not only 1 men are not accustomed 1 men is not so 1 men take no side 1 men were no longer 1 mind are not much A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 6106 author = Canby, Henry Seidel title = Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] date = keywords = Anglo; Conrad; England; English; Hardy; Henry; James; Mr.; Mrs.; New; Street; Thoreau; Wharton; York; american; book; fiction; good; great; life; like; literature; man; novel; poetry; story; write summary = TO-DAY IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: ADDRESSED TO THE BRITISH TIME''S MIRROR whether we write or read more novels and short stories of the When a critic, after a course in American novels and magazines, succeeds in American plays and stories--if not by good thinking, a few themes in current American short stories,--the sentimental life; the typical stories of the American magazines, for all their the Russian authors could write American stories I believe that blood in the American short story yet, though I have read through our musical criticism, not so good as current reviewing of poetry American mind; but it is like the English or the Spanish touch learn, read, write only English, the tradition of AngloAmerican literature is all that holds us by a thread above chaos. The critic of American literature usually begins in this fashion: The review is like much American poetry. good reviewing is good criticism applied to a new book. id = 14528 author = Cobb, Samuel title = Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) date = keywords = Homer; Muse; Poet; Poetry; Soul; Verse; World; eye; like; nature; praise summary = The _Muse_, which smiles on jingling Bards, like Me, Rules they can write, but, like the _College Tribe_, same Author, when he tells us that the Greatness of_ Homer''s _Soul So to Thy Fame a _Pyramid_ shall rise, Nor shall the Poet fix thee in the Skies. (For ''tis thy Praise) on each unworthy Line, Shall cause like Travail, and as great a Pain. Tho'' Art ne''re taught him how to write by Rules, Like _Waller''s_ Muse, who tho'' inchain''d by Rhime, Like those _Seraphick_ flames of which He Sung. And Rules for _Dryden_, like a _Dryden_, Writes. O could I Write in thy Immortal Way! That little praise my unknown Muse can give. With Flame begin thy Glorious Thoughts and Style, Whose Verse, like a proportion''d Man, we find, To lay Thy Trumpet down, and sing of Love. For still we view the _Sacred Poet''s_ praise. id = 6081 author = Coleridge, Samuel Taylor title = Biographia Literaria date = keywords = Aristotle; Bertram; England; Footnote; God; Greek; Hamburg; Hartley; Imagination; Kant; Klopstock; Lord; Milton; Mr.; Shakespeare; Sir; Southey; St.; Wordsworth; answer; author; chapter; english; feeling; form; french; friend; german; good; great; high; language; life; mind; nature; object; poem; poet; power; present; reader; reason; sense; thing; thought; time; truth; word; work summary = concerning the true nature of poetic diction; and at the same time to The great works of past ages seem to a young man things of fancy, and the love of nature, and the sense of beauty in forms and feeling, an involuntary sense of fear from which nature has no means of the senses; the mind is affected by thoughts, rather than by things; instances drawn from the operation of natural objects on the mind. ideas,--actually existed, and in what consist their nature and power. the writings of these men, and expressed, as was natural, in the words By persuasa prudentia, Grynaeus means selfcomplacent common sense as opposed to science and philosophic reason. poem of your own in the FRIEND, and applied to a work of Mr. Wordsworth''s though with a few of the words altered: meaning to the mere English reader, cannot possibly act on the mind with id = 3377 author = Howells, William Dean title = Criticism and Fiction date = keywords = Balzac; Christmas; Dickens; English; Senor; Valdes; american; fiction; great; life; man; thing; work summary = those called critics," the author says, "they have generally sought nature long enough yet to allow most critics the time to learn some more other author or artist, but in his relation to the human nature, known to Such a critic will not respect Balzac''s good work the less for contemning write like the English critic, to show his wit if not his learning, to a book in such a light that the reader shall know its class, its there have not been greater books since criticism became an art than clearest things which have been said of the art of fiction in a time when whole range of fiction I know of no true picture of life--that is, of exceeding great multitude of novel-writers and such like must, in a new much or how little the American novel ought to deal with certain facts of id = 3379 author = Howells, William Dean title = Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) date = keywords = England; Hamlet; Horse; Italy; Mme; Mr.; New; York; american; good; great; life; like; little; long; look; man; old; people; place; thing; time summary = as far away in time as in space, and a long-ago apparition of Venetian been mere goings and comings, past the white houses overlooking little been kept in New York, as I have been this year, beyond the natural time They did not look like the country people whom I rather hoped and In other words, if you went to see the Hamlet of Mme. Bernhardt frankly expecting to be disappointed, you were less likely in not think that after a real country circus there are many better things likes to feel towards the rich and great, I had better come away. agreeable summer would be as good in that way as in making a hard-andfast choice of a certain place and sticking to it. To great numbers Europe looks from this shore like the village groups that New England farm-houses have always liked to I think, very likely, if the thing id = 13764 author = Lynd, Robert title = The Art of Letters date = keywords = Bunyan; Coleridge; Cowper; Donne; England; George; God; Gosse; Gray; John; Lamb; Mare; Meredith; Mr.; Mrs.; Pepys; Pope; Saintsbury; Shakespeare; Shelley; Sir; Swift; Tennyson; Walpole; Whibley; Wilde; Wordsworth; book; english; great; like; man summary = beautiful poem begins: "Hark, all you ladies." He sings of love-making English poems do not portray him as a man likely to die of love, or even years, as "a poor man who has but twenty books in the world, and two of it played so great a part in giving the world a letter-writer of genius. passed so much of his time writing such things as _Verses written at Bath world about him, a man who wrote letters that have the genius of the No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the same time a More than once the author tells us the same things as Mr. Mackail, only in a less life-like way. about books, though Mr. Gosse is a poet and biographer as well, and Mr. Saintsbury, it is said, once dreamed of writing a history of wine. id = 14637 author = Murry, John Middleton title = Aspects of Literature date = keywords = Aristotle; Butler; Coleridge; Hardy; Jacques; Jean; Masefield; Ronsard; Shakespeare; Sidney; Sir; Tchehov; Thomas; Wordsworth; art; english; good; great; keat; life; like; man; poetry summary = creative revelation of the ideal actively at work in human life. instance, the good life is that in which man has achieved a harmony of A man does not live the good life human life is aiming; he makes men who are his characters completely that the true critic of poetry is the poet and has to smuggle the æsthetic criticism assumes as an axiom that every true work of art is These are times when men have need of the great solitaries; for each man Great poetry stands in this, that it expresses man''s allegiance to his Whether the present generation will produce great poetry, we do not [Footnote 6: _John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics, giving way to memory in poetry; he is a great poet uttering the cry of No man was ever yet a great poet without being at the id = 7409 author = Pope, Alexander title = An Essay on Criticism date = keywords = Dryden; Homer; Pope; Rome; line; poet; tis; wit summary = beautiful and striking lines and a general revision of his works, closed Authors are partial to their wit, ''tis true [17] The generous critic fanned the poet''s fire, True wit is nature to advantage dressed; And ten low words oft creep in one dull line, Though wit and art conspire to move your mind; [Line 17: Wit is used in the poem in a great variety of [Line 34: Maevius--An insignificant poet of the Augustan age, since "wit" has a different meaning in the two lines: in 80, it means [Lines 130-136: It is said that Virgil first intended to write a poem The poet gives a remarkable example in the next line.] [Line 361: Sir John Denham, a poet of the time of Charles I. [Lines 366-373: In this passage the poet obviously intended to make [Line 479: Patriarch wits--Perhaps an allusion to the great [Line 552: Wit''s Titans.--The Titans, in Greek mythology, id = 13408 author = Spence, Edward Fordham title = Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" date = keywords = Censor; England; Hamlet; Irving; Lauder; London; Miss; Paris; Shakespeare; Society; Theatre; actor; british; critic; drama; dramatist; english; fact; french; great; little; matter; people; play; player; stage; time; work summary = English modern drama, we have little in the ordinary London theatre that matter related to a book, and not to a play, the dramatic critics felt The written opinion upon any matter of public interest--a play, a book, before alleging that the critic''s opinion concerning the play and the theatre or read plays, and therefore ought to know that their works are "By all means have a little theatre of your own and enjoy dull plays in learn more of the public ideas concerning a play or performance than is a great drama like _The Pretenders_, rich in strong acting parts, for the English stage of foreign plays--a topic of great importance, plays on the stage." In other words, the seventeenth is great drama, the think it did an actor good to play a great number of vastly different piece, for but little good work comes out of drama concocted under such id = 36245 author = Spingarn, Joel Elias title = A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism date = keywords = Aristotle; Art; Arte; Bellay; Castelvetro; Defence; England; France; Giraldi; Horace; Ibid; Italy; Jonson; Minturno; Pléiade; Poetics; Renaissance; Ronsard; Scaliger; Sidney; Tasso; Vida; aristotelian; english; french; italian; poetry summary = Butcher''s _Aristotle''s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art_, a noble one who imitates without verse is a poet, in the best and truest poetry poetically treated become poetry, and Aristotle himself[66] says that imitation is what distinguishes the poetic art, Aristotle, by limiting Aristotle, as we know, regarded poetry as an imitation of human life, poetry he rates above tragedy, since the epic poet, more than any other, Tasso points out that if the actions of tragedy and of epic poetry were imitate nature because the great classical poets have always poetry, is based on Aristotle, Scaliger, and various Italian poet''s personality; that is, poetry is merely reasoned expression, a _Poetics_ (1561) is the work, not of a French critic, but of an Italian "Tragedy, as Aristotle says in his _Poetics_, is an imitation or "Poetry," says Sidney,[461] "is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle id = 6320 author = Vaughan, Charles Edwyn title = English literary criticism date = keywords = Botticelli; Carlyle; Chaucer; Coleridge; Dante; Donne; Dryden; Edinburgh; Elizabethan; England; English; French; God; Goethe; Goldsmith; Homer; Horace; Johnson; Milton; Mr.; Ovid; Plato; Restoration; Shakespeare; Sidney; Virgil; Wordsworth; footnote; good; great; like; man; nature; poetry; thing summary = that stirs his soul in the great works of ancient poetry. poetry in himself, no man can hope to do more than hack-work as a a touch of the desire to set one form of art, or one particular poet, of his critical method--poetry becomes more and more a mere matter of showing, the objects of the imagination, at least as far as poetry is mind that our old English poet, Chaucer, in many things resembled him, Poetry then is an imitation of nature, but the imagination and the Poetry in its matter and form is natural imagery or feeling, combined Its ideas of nature are like its ideas of God. It is not the poetry of social life, but of solitude: each man seems all poets, like the co-operating thoughts of one great mind, have built time or place, but in the spirit of man; and Art, with Nature, is now id = 11251 author = nan title = Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R. Brimley Johnson date = keywords = Becky; Burney; Byron; Charles; Church; Coleridge; Darwin; Dr.; Edinburgh; England; English; Eyre; George; Gladstone; God; Greek; Hunt; James; Jane; Johnson; Keats; Laureate; Leigh; London; Lord; Macaulay; Mackintosh; Milton; Miss; Moore; Mr.; Mrs.; Newman; Pope; Quarterly; Review; Rochester; Rome; Scott; Shakespeare; Sir; Smith; Southey; Tennyson; Wordsworth; author; character; french; good; great; life; like; man; nature; poet; time; work summary = scarcely any safe course to follow, in times like the present, but to doctrines were likely to gain any thing in point of effect or authority his claim on the score of rank, he takes care to remember us of Dr. Johnson''s saying, that when a nobleman appears as an author, his merit The author of this volume is a young man of unblemished character, and good truth, no man, now-a-days, composes verses for publication, with a as a man of inexhaustible powers of work." Known from his Oxford days as performance; but, like most of the works of the great poet (Byron) who fear her great mistress, Nature, has been in real life), when on a visit feeling for his little evil spirit than many a better man has for a good of Scott, the most original-minded man of this generation of Poets,